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Gone With the Wind

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Gone With the Wind (1939)

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Reviews Counted:60

Fresh:58

Rotten:2

Average Rating:8.6/10

Consensus: Filmed and presented on a scale not seen in modern productions, Gone with the Wind is, if not the definitive Hollywood film, then certainly near the top of the list.

Runtime: 3 hrs 58 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest,... Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest, blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. Ashley, who is also in love with Scarlett, marries his genteel cousin Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) because he believes that their quiet similarities will create a better marriage than Scarlett's passion. Meanwhile, sparks fly between Rhett and Scarlett at their first encounter and continue throughout Scarlett's first two marriages. Scarlett and Rhett finally wed, but Scarlett continues to pine for her beloved Ashley. Set against the Civil War and Southern Reconstruction, this tragic love quadrangle offers the burning of Atlanta and fields of wounded Confederates as part of its lush scenery. Meticulous backdrops, glorious sunsets, numerous silhouettes, and the ultrasaturated Technicolor film create a hyperreal vision. The romantic score is every bit as lush and dramatic as the photography, borrowing folk melodies from the Old South to make the tragic war concrete. Heavy nostalgic tones pervade the often witty dialogue and larger-than-life charms and faults of the leads. GONE WITH THE WIND stands among the greatest epic dramas ever filmed. [More]

Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel

Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Leslie Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Evelyn Keyes, Butterfly McQueen, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves, Fred Crane, Oscar Polk, Victor Jory, Howard Hickman, Rand Brooks, Laura Hope Crews, Eddie Anderson, Harry Davenport, Jane Darwell, Ona Munson, Paul Hurst, Isabel Jewell, Eric Linden, Ward Bond, Jackie Moran, Cliff Edwards, Yakima Canutt, Louis Jean Heydt, Irving Bacon, Alicia Rhett, Everett Brown, William Bakewell, Mary Anderson, Carroll Nye, Cammie King, Leona Roberts, Mickey Kuhn, Lillian Kemble-Cooper, Olin Howland, Robert Elliott

Director: Victor Fleming

Director: Victor Fleming
Story: Margaret Mitchell
Screenwriter: Sidney Howard
Composer: Adolph Deutsch, Max Steiner, Hugo Friedhofer, Heinz Roemheld
Producer: David O. Selznick
Studio: MGM

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It's impossible not to be carried away by the rich arterial force of this storytelling.

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02/19/08
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Grand old Hollywood at its most magnificent and melodramatic. Say what you like about the soapy characterisation and plotting, the spectacle flattens all in its wake.

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02/19/08
Channel 4 Film
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What more can one say about this much-loved, much discussed blockbuster?

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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Well, even if it is essentially four hours about a selfish, silly cow, it's impeccably well made, and should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in romance or movies.

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02/02/05
Empire Magazine
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Clear an evening and indulge yourself in one of the few films that can justifiably be called an epic.

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11/12/01
Almar Haflidason
Almar Haflidason
BBC
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Coordinating six filming units at once and presiding over 50-hour editing sessions, [Selznick] subsisted on a regular diet of thyroid extract, Benzedrine, and B-12 shots.

Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | comment Comment
08/21/09
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

The cinema event for which the U. S. has palpitated for three years.

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02/17/09
TIME Magazine
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One of the truly great films, destined for record-breaking boxoffice business everywhere.

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02/19/08
John C. Flinn Sr.
John C. Flinn Sr.
Variety
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A lost Hollywood art: the epic melodrama.

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10/14/07
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

A critic-proof movie if there ever was one: it isn't all that good, but somehow it's great.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
12/12/06
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader

Terrificly acted, staged and designed, Gone WIth the Wind remains one of the greatest period epics ever filmed.

Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | comment Comment
10/17/06
Wesley Lovell
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy

Despite the star power of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, Wind has lost some of its bluster, yet it survives as a glorious Technicolored window into America's dusty, bygone past.

Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
07/12/06
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

Forget it, no Civil War film has made a nickel, producer Irving Thalberg told Louis B. Mayer about a melodrama that would break records and become a unique cultural phenom

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06/27/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

The film that perhaps defines Hollywood.

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12/07/04
Douglas Pratt
Douglas Pratt
Hollywood Reporter
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It's so full of iconic moments of plotting and dialog that a feature film could be edited just out of the most quotable moments.

Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | comment Comment
11/12/04
Gil Jawetz
Gil Jawetz
DVDTalk.com

...producer David O. Selznick's crowning achievement and a film that stands up as one of the screen's finest classics.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
11/05/04
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

One of the classic films that defined American cinema, Gone With the Wind is a rare example of a collaboration involving hundreds of talents and egos that turned out great.

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10/31/04
David Bezanson
David Bezanson
Filmcritic.com

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04/30/04
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Possibly the best loved movie spectacle ever.

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04/27/04
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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03/05/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
 
 
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